In part two of the Ius Publicum Europeaum Series, I am once again joined by our new political theory cohost, Merctores to discuss the fruits of Hugo Grotius’s labors that gave life to European public law and the rise of the nation state: the Peace of Westphalia.
It is in this peace that the European consensus was cemented for 300 years, with empires being outsourced to possessions overseas, and the German people never truly recovering from the war that begged for this peace in the first place: the Thirty Years War.
With the exception of somewhat grander conflicts like the Nine Years War and Seven Years War, the consensus of Ius Publicum Europeaum was maintained amidst the many punitive wars that it permitted from its inception.
This status quo however would receive its first major threat and test in the form of the French Revolution and its consequences.
The Blood & Rain Podcast
Episode 88
“Ius Publicum Europeaum Part 2”
Featuring: Mercatores
Enjoy.